[meteorite-list] nice gao specimens only

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:59:34 -0600
Message-ID: <001d01c77080$8a1c8c40$16cc5ec8_at_0019110394>

Hi Steve and List,

I just had a little fun browsing around your Gao-Guenie collection pages.
It was quite enjoyable and I wanted you to know that your efforts to put
together the web pages are appreciated. My favorite photo is of the 137.5
gram specimen.

I do have one comment where I am in disagreement - apparently with most of
the collecting community. That would your preference to buy them only
"cleaned". Not having the experience with the Gao-Guenie you have, I
wouldn't know how they are being "cleaned". (And would like to know the
whole Geschichte on "HOW NOW BROWN GAO?") But it doesn't look like it is
with a superficial passing of a clean rag. While scientifically cleaning is
generally a "no-no", in the case of Gao-Guenie, I doubt this is really very
crucial as there must be over a ton of this meteorite to go around and study
for those so inclined. But this is not an Iron meteorite where cleaning can
actually be important for the preservation - as you mentioned, it is simply
an H5 stony chondrite.

As the world's major Buyer of Gao-Guenie, you actually are influencing the
major sources then to clean their specimens. May I suggest you add
uncleaned stones to your Gao Museum as well, for those of us who enjoy
gawking at your world class acquisitions, there is something missing when we
can only see artificially spiffed up crust everywhere when we also love to
see the meteorites more as they are found in-situ. I personally think your
collection comes up short because it is missing a nice, large Gao-Guenie
recently found with killer orientation characteristics visible.

True, when they originally fell, they were rather dark crusted, but the
stones on your page, in some cases look even darker than the natural fresh
fusion crust color and like some NWA's that have artificially sandblasted
black crusts. As I mentioned, there is enough Gao-Guenie to go around so
there is room for both cleaned and uncleaned specimens. But why should we
rub all of our meteorites with generic Botox and not see them for the
beauties they naturally are and the way the occur at the locality? As a
collector I think careless cleaning reminds us of the the guy who finds a
cache of ancient coins and scrubs them down with a wire brush so they
glitter more than the original metal ever did. Can you imagine Bob Haag
having scrubbed the Adamana Stone down to black? I am sure some of the
detail in the delicate flow patterns would have been forever lost.

Let's put some scientific "Witnessed" back in the fall before seeing how the
witness falls upon examination. That is my opinion on your fantastic
collection of photos of Gao. I have a small, natural "unclean" Gao-Guenie
specimen that is fully crusted, but it is clearly out of the major league,
so I won't bother posting it to save face and not being laughed off the
list. Nice job - I hope you consider my comments and discuss your opinion,
highly valued by dealers, regarding cleaning your Gaos.

Best Health and Great Health,
Dougao

----- Original Message -----
From: "steve arnold" <stevenarnold60120 at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 7:03 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] nice gao specimens only


> Hi dirk,ryan and list.No ryan I am not hording gao to
> up the price per gram.LOL!!And dirk is right.Even
> though he said he had 20 kilo's of nice gao,I would
> not buy it.Because at this time I could not afford it
> all at once.I am buying nice pieces a few speimens at
> a time.Also ryan if you noticed,I am only buying 95%
> or fusion crusted pieces.NO FRAGMENTS.NO SLICES!Only
> really nicely cleaned pieces that look really well in
> a collection.I also did not think dirk would sell his
> anyway.He is to sly for that.And right now for me gao
> is very affordable.And trust me ryan.I KNOW THERE ARE
> MANY NICE METEORITES ARE OUT THERE.It also makes
> knowing that you mostly onlt spending your money on 1
> type.You then do not have to worry about,do you have
> this one,I really need to find this one,etc.,etc.Also
> for an H5 major witness fall,it is a very nice stone
> to collect.Any more thoughts about this great stone?
>
>
>
> steve arnold
>
> Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!!
> Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!!
> www.chicagometeorites.net
> Ebay I.D. Illinoismeteorites
>
>
>
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
________
> The fish are biting.
> Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.
> http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php
> ______________________________________________
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
Received on Tue 27 Mar 2007 10:59:34 AM PDT